Kim Tuttle

A man who killed three people outside the town of Rye in November 2013 and then set fire to a home has pleaded guilty. A judge immediately sentenced Harry Mapps to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A man suspected of killing three people and setting fire to a home in Colorado said Monday that he wouldn’t fight his extradition from Oklahoma, where he was arrested over the weekend after a monthlong search.

A nationwide search is underway for a former long-distance trucker who is suspected in the deaths of three people in Colorado and is likely on the run rather than hiding out, authorities said Thursday.